Created by Nathan Yau from Flowing Data, this interactive visualisation takes your sex, race, and age, then simulates how things might play out for the rest of your life — or what there is left of it. Morbid yet informative. Read more >>

This new timeline by Slovak graphic designer Martin Vargic does a wonderful job of describing the last 13.8 billion years of space—and what might happen in the next 10 billion, too. Prepare to scroll (the image is 23,364 pixels deep). See more >>

Time zones can be confusing things. But this map, which looks like it could be a piece of modern art, strips them back to their essence: this is how the world looks if the only thing you can see is the time zone boundaries. Read more >>